Crime and Punishment - Anglo Saxon

The historical period of time before 1066 was known as what?

• Norman England

• Anglo-Saxon England

• Tudor England

The crime of challenging the power of a person or group of people in a country is called what?

• A crime against propery

• A crime against the person

• A social crime

• A crime against authority

The king's choice of laws in England was heavily influenced by who?

• The peasants

• The nobility

• Their wives

• Nobody

Whose responsibility was it to seek justice if a crime had been committed against them or their property?

• Themselves (the victim)

• The Shire Reeves

• The King

• The nobility

The alert to call for help if a person saw a crime taking place was called the (a)  

In Anglo-Saxon times, England was divided into large areas of land or regions known as what?

• Hundreds

• Shires

• Counties

• Tithings

Each region of England was known as a shire. What were shires then broken up into?

• Tens

• Tithings

• Hundreds

• Lands

What title was given to the person who had control of the law enforcement in each shire and represented the king?

• A tithing

• A hundred

• A hundredsman

• A shire reeve

What term describes the group of men in any village who had the responsibility to enforce the laws?

• Tithings

• Shire Reeves

• Nobles

What was a 'Tithing'?

• A group of men over the age of 12 who took turns enforcing the law in their own village.

• A group of men and women over the age of 10 who took turns enforcing the law in their own village

• A group of men over the age of 12 who were voted in to enforce the law for the rest of their lives.

• A group of men over the age of 20 who took turns enforcing the law in their own village.